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How did African Americans respond to discrimanation and Jim crow?
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∙ 12y ago
There were different responses in the African American community to the establishment of Jim crow segregation through legislation and custom in the states of the American south. Most people accepted the laws. Others began to rally against the laws.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoWhen the Jim Crow laws were originally passed the African American community did not like these laws, but ultimately accepted them due to the potential of getting lynched. During the civil rights movement, the Jim Crow laws were over-turned in peaceful protests.
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How can you describe the economic and social and legal status of African-Americans during the time of Jim Crow?
During the time of Jim Crow African Americans had no legal rights a they had no economic and social status
What people were effected by Jim Crow?
another group that jim crow treated wrong were mexicans.
What was named after Jim crow?
It was named Jim Crow after a song/dance that riticuled African Americans. It was called "Jump, Jim Crow".
What measures did African Americans take in response to the passage of Jim crow laws?
They POOPED on him.
How did Jim crow laws make it more difficult for African Americans to get health care?
The laws prevented white nurses from working in hospitals that admitted African Americans
How did African Americans respond to Jim Crow laws?
Ballsacks
How can you describe the economic and social and legal status of African-Americans during the time of Jim Crow?
During the time of Jim Crow African Americans had no legal rights a they had no economic and social status
How can you describe the economic and social and legal status of African Americans during the time of Jim Crow?
During the time of Jim Crow African Americans had no legal rights a they had no economic and social status
Southern laws that imposed restrictions on African Americans?
Southern laws that imposed restrictions on African Americans were called Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws prevented southern African American from truly have equality with the white counterparts.
What was the source of discrimination against African Americans?
the Jim crow law
How did African Americans people survive the Jim crow laws?
because
African Americans were separated because of what laws?
Jim Crow laws
What type of discrimination did African Americans faced?
jim crow laws
What did Jim Crow laws do?
Jim Crow laws kept African Americans and whites from mixing in the South in public places.
Who was responsible for eliminating Jim Crow laws which extended civil rights to African Americans?
Jim Crow laws did NOT extend rights to African Americans. It actually did the opposite. Jim Crow laws, or laws of segregation, subjugated African Americans to second-class citizenship by preventing them from shopping in stores, sitting inside at lunch counters, going to school with Whites, etc.
What was a system of laws that legally segregated and degraded African Americans?
Jim Crow
What types of laws disfranchised African Americans after the reconstruction?
The Jim Crow laws
